2 Kings 17:9-11

9They secretly did things that the Lord their God said were not right. In all their towns, they built altars to worship false gods. They built them everywhere, in small villages and in strong cities.

10They put up stone pillars and Asherah poles to worship their gods. They put them on top of all the high hills and under all the big trees.

11At all those places they burned incense to worship their gods, as the nations in Canaan had done. The Lord had chased those nations out of Canaan so that the Israelites could live there. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord very angry.